Cherry Walk and Lawn 



confusion, the colour print on the wall by the 

 window was blurred in her mind with an illustra- 

 tion of Tennyson's " Rizpah," which is a memory 

 of her early youth ! 



Now for the outside of the cottage. 



First, she is to see the view from the lawn with 

 the round windows of the new study. There she 

 is free from the literary atmosphere which so 

 oppressed her, and can admire the effect of the 

 green shutters and the white rough-cast walls and 

 the brown tiled roofs. The old roofs of the original 

 house were grey slate, which was not to be endured 

 for a moment. To replace the slates with tiles was 

 expensive and troublesome. Therefore, the blue- 

 grey was blotted out with red paint I 

 1 Why not ? 



The red soon tones down, and the effect is 

 almost as good as tiles. But, let me add, it really 

 is not quite so simple as this. I had to stand over 

 the painters while they were working at it, and got 

 them to rub in, here and there, some patches of 

 brown paint, and, even green, in places, to get the 

 artistic effect that is needed when you attempt 

 to paint a slate roof. The result is so satisfactory, 

 that when I explain to my visitors they are at once 

 reduced to the proper admiring sense of the mar- 

 vellous and say : 



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